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Have you noticed more moving vans around your neighborhood? Summer is peak moving season, with roughly half of all moves taking place between the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/24/25
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On Saturday the pro-democracy group Olympia Indivisible is hosting a rally and march to demonstrate against what they’re calling the Trump administration’s “disregard of the needs …
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Simone Carter / The Olympian (TNS)
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7/24/25
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday agreed with a Seattle judge’s decision to universally block President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/23/25
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A 115-year-old canal in the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District that was severely damaged during the Rimrock Retreat Fire last year is now at imminent risk of failure.
Fixing the 12-mile waterway …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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7/23/25
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The Olympia City Council on Tuesday night rejected a proposal to adopt a $20 minimum wage as part of a Workers' Bill of Rights initiative. The council voted 4-3 against passing the initiative …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/23/25
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Last month, the state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council reported that Washington faced running out of money by 2027. With the passage of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the …
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By TJ Martinell | The Center Square
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7/23/25
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Despite presidential authority, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., called on Republicans on Wednesday to block the Trump administration’s tariffs and return to free trade.
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Tim Clouser | The Center Square
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7/23/25
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On Wednesday, a former Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student who brutally murdered four University of Idaho students in 2022 was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison …
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By Carleen Johnson | The Center Square
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7/23/25
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In June, unemployment throughout Washington state remained at 4.5%, according to the Washington state Employment Security Department (ESD).
The agency reported Lewis County had a 4.5% …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/23/25
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Branden Trager, of Brush Prairie, and his guiding company Mayhem Services LLC pleaded guilty this week in federal court in Tacoma to violating the Lacey Act.
In pleading guilty, Trager admitted …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/23/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, and Rep. David Rouzer, R-North Carolina, recently introduced the bipartisan Jobs in the Woods Act, which aims to connect young people with careers and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/23/25
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The Olympia City Council will vote Tuesday night on whether to adopt a Workers’ Bill of Rights that would raise the minimum wage in Olympia to $20 per hour, or send the proposal to voters this …
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Carleen Johnson | The Center Square
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7/23/25
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A former bar owner in Everett was sentenced to prison for 109 years on Monday for sexually assaulting several women and a child, including customers of his business.
Across four trials, juries …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/23/25
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Steven Murrow was hiking with his family Sunday along the road to Hurricane Ridge at Olympic National Park.
He said the Victoria Overlook was packed around 3:15 p.m., with the parking lot full. …
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Mara Mellits / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/23/25
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Before the Blue Angels roar over Seattle, some are calling for the end of the air show. The U.S. Navy pilots have been performing at Seafair since 1972, with their show this year in the first weekend …
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Mara Mellits / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/23/25
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Matt Beirne reached through the swirling sheen and scooped up the dead young fish. Some had settled into the sediment, others floated belly-up or with mouths gaped.
He laid the fish on rocks …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/23/25
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Voters have a host of issues on their minds as they open their ballots, including the largest tax increase in state history, local impacts of the Trump administration's actions, and a rising cost of …
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Shauna Sowers / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/23/25
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Conditions haven’t improved at the defunct and degrading pulp mill along the Chehalis River, which had once been the keystone for the small city of Cosmopolis.
Really, things have grown …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/22/25
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Wess Roley leaned on the bed of his black Ford Ranger pickup and watched as firefighters responded to the upper parking lot at Canfield Mountain on June 29, according to the dashboard video.
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Thomas Clouse / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/22/25
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An Eastern Oregon woman in her 60s lost $600,000 to scammers after she followed their instructions to buy gold bars and transfer their ownership to them, state officials said.
Officials from the …
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Aimee Green / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/22/25
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